Jakarta - President Prabowo Subianto hopes and encourages that campuses can "descend" to help solve real problems in urban areas, especially the unfinished spatial and housing.
Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Technology (Mendiksaintek) Brian Yuliarto said universities were asked to help regional heads through research and studies that could be used immediately.
This was conveyed by Minister Brian after being summoned by President Prabowo Subianto to the Presidential Palace Complex, Jakarta, Monday, April 6.
The main target is campuses that have the Faculty of Planning and Architecture. According to the Minister of Education and Technology, cities and regencies will no longer just be ceremonial places of service.
The area is requested to be a practice room for students and a research field for lecturers. The local campus is expected to help the head of the region manage the urban and spatial planning in its own area.
According to Brian, the campus is not enough to just graduate. His knowledge is also asked to be used to read the increasingly complicated city problems. Brian said the President's direction did not stop at spatial planning. The campus is also asked to enter the housing issue, a sector that has always been full of problems from upstream to downstream.
The Ministry of Housing will coordinate, while the Ministry of Science and Technology will provide support from the research side. This encouragement shows that the government wants the campus to be more useful for the region, not just busy taking care of proposals, journals, and seminars.
If this scheme works, the campus will no longer stop as a producer of theories, but will also be used to fix problems that residents see every day on the street, in settlements, and in urban spaces.
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